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Explaining Reading Comprehension in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Importance of Elaborative Inferencing
Conclusions These results indicate that interventions targeting the reading comprehension of children with DLD should focus on elaborative inferencing skill. There are also clinical implications as the development of new standardized assessments differentiating between inference types is called for. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Characteristics of Speech Rate in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Longitudinal Study
Conclusions There were no significant age-related differences in speech rate in children with CP regardless of group membership. Sentence length differentially impacted speech rate and its characteristics in both groups of children with CP. This may be due to cognitive –linguistic and/or speech motor control factors. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Examining Factors Influencing the Viability of Automatic Acoustic Analysis of Child Speech
Conclusions Alignment accuracy of child speech can be improved by using more specific training and transcription. However, poor alignment accuracy was not found to impede acoustic analysis of /s/ produced by even very young children. Thus, forced alignment presents a useful tool for the analysis of child speech.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7070105 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Bilingual Speech Sound Development During the Preschool Years: The Role of Language Proficiency and Cross-Linguistic Relatedness
Conclusions This study is the first to document developmental changes in the speech patterns of Spanish –English bilingual preschool children over 1 year. Accuracy rates improved significantly in both languages, suggesting that enhanced exposure to the majority language at school may not impede phonological development in the home language. Bootstrapping effects were particularly pronounced on cross -linguistically shared sounds, which suggests that the same underlying skills are utilized in both languages, whereas language-specific singleton consonants and consonant clusters did not appear to benefit from exposure to th...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Chiari Type I Malformation Associated With Verbal Fluency Impairment
Conclusions From the results of this study, it can be concluded that people suffering from CM exhibit less verbal fluency than healthy control individuals and that this difference is not caused by depression or anxiety. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

The Mandarin Version of the Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V) and Its Reliability
Conclusions The Mandarin CAPE-V addresses some limits of the English version. It also demonstrates good intrarater and interrater reliability, comparable to those of GRBAS. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - October 26, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Pure-Tone Frequency Discrimination in Preschoolers, Young School-Age Children, and Adults
Conclusions Thresholds for school-age children were broadly similar to those previously observed using a forced-choice procedure. Although there was a trend for improved performance with increasing age, no significant age effect was observed between preschoolers and school-age children. The practice of excluding participants based on failure to meet conditioning criteria in an observer-based task could contribute to the relatively good performance observed for preschoolers in this study and the adultlike performance previously observed in infants. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Preference for Infant-Directed Speech in Infants With Hearing Aids: Effects of Early Auditory Experience
Conclusions Infants with HAs appear to have sufficient access to the acoustic cues in the speech that allow them to develop an age-equivalent IDS preference. This may be attributed to a combination of being able to use the hearing they do have before receiving HAs and early device fitting. Given previously demonstrated positive associations between IDS preference and language development, this research encourages early interventions focusing on maximizing early auditory experience in infants with hearing loss.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6906365 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Reliability of Measures of N1 Peak Amplitude of the Compound Action Potential in Younger and Older Adults
Conclusions Our results suggest that measurements of AN activity can be robustly and reliably recorded in both younger and older adults using either peak-to-peak or baseline-corrected measurements of the N1 of the CAP. Peak-to-peak measurements yield larger N1 response amplitudes and are the default measurement type for many clinical systems, whereas baseline-corrected measurements are computationally simpler. Furthermore, the relationships between AN activity and stimulus- and participant-related variables were not affected by measurement technique, which suggests that these relationships can be compared across studies us...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A Potential Bias in Subjective Ratings of Mental Effort
Conclusions Participants likely substitute an easier question when asked to rate the multidimensional construct of mental effort. The results presented here suggest that perceived performance can serve as a ready heuristic and may explain the dissociation between subjective measures of listening effort and behavioral and physiological measures. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Diagnosing Middle Ear Pathology in 6- to 9-Month-Old Infants Using Wideband Absorbance: A Risk Prediction Model
Conclusions The risk prediction model had accurate discrimination and satisfactory calibration. Validation results indicate that it may generalize well to new infants. The model could potentially be used in diagnostic and screening settings. In the context of screening, probabilities provide an intuitive and flexible mechanism for setting the referral threshold that is sensitive to the costs associated with true and false-positive outcomes. In a diagnostic setting, predictions could be used to supplement visual inspection of absorbance for individualized diagnoses. Further research assessing the performance and impact of t...
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

How Do Age and Hearing Loss Impact Spectral Envelope Perception?
Conclusions The spectral envelope perception as measured by spectral modulation detection thresholds is compromised by hearing loss at higher spectral modulation frequencies, consistent with predictions of reduced spectral resolution known to accompany sensorineural hearing loss. Spectral envelope perception is not negatively impacted by advancing age at any spectral modulation frequency between 0.5 and 8.0 cycles/octave. (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Perceptual Encoding in Auditory Brainstem Responses: Effects of Stimulus Frequency
Conclusions Results demonstrate that the ABR provides a useful measure of early perceptual encoding for stimuli varying in frequency and that the tonotopic organization of the auditory system is preserved at this stage of processing for stimuli from 500 to 8000 Hz. Such a measure may serve as a useful clinical tool for evaluating a listener's ability to encode specific frequencies in sounds.Supplemental Materialhttps://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6987422 (Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research)
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - September 19, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research